A head and shoulders portrait of a rosy-complexioned gentleman with clear grey eyes. He wears a long white softly-curling wig with a centre parting, and a white lace cravat under an unbuttoned tan jacket. His shoulders are three-quarters turned to the left. The portrait is contained in a plain dark buff oval in a feigned black surround. The gentleman, John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, wears the regalia of the Order of the Bath (a medieval society, revived in 1725 as an additional source of political reward). This consists of a red sash, called a 'ribbon', worn diagonally across his chest from his right shoulder, and a silver-braid star on his left breast. Within the star is embroidered the motto, 'TRIA IUNCTA IN UNO', or 'three joined in one', and within the motto are three crowns.